Missions & Complexes

Estella Osoka,

That very same question has been asked a few times in the past. Maybe CCP has run out of glue.



Thanks for posting.



DMC

I don't know if that will work but thanks anyway .......................



DMC

Hello Papera Ebaki,

Thank you very much for the compliment. It's always good to see 'The Plan' is still helping Capsuleers.

Now about your situation. First let's address the grinding of 16 regular missions to gain a Storyline mission offer.

Yes, if offered a Storyline encounter mission against Empire Factions, decline it and continue grinding regular missions to get another Storyline offer. The same applies to grinding regular missions. If offered an encounter mission against Empire Factions, decline it and if necessary, wait out the 4 hour decline timer or access another Agent. That way any positive standings previously gained won't be damaged. I know it makes the process longer but it's well worth it.

As for your main issue, first off train Diplomacy and Connections to level 5 asap. That will give you a much better idea on how to proceed. Secondly, I can't really give advice on what steps to do without knowing how many Event Agents you've already accessed.

When working 'The Plan', the standings will do a 'Sea-Saw' action, meaning they will go up and down with the completion of each Event Agent. The main thing to do is to keep watch on the standings and 'bounce' over to the Faction with the lowest standings while you still have access to that level of Agent.

For example :

Let's say you've already accessed all level 1 and level 2 Event Agents for Minmatar and Gallente Factions with Minmatar above +5.00 standing and Gallente above +4.00 standing. Amarr Faction is currently at +1.00 standing and Caldari is +1.50 standing. Since Amarr Faction standing is the lowest and Minmatar Faction standing is the highest, work the Amarr Event Agents and keep watch on Minmatar Faction standing until it get's close to yet still remains above +3.00 Faction standing, then 'bounce' back to Minmatar and work their level 3 Event Agents.

Note : When doing that, Gallente Faction can be used instead of Minmatar since Gallente standings won't be hit as hard when working Amarr Event Agents. As such, their standings will probably become higher than Minmatar allowing access to their level 3 Event Agents.

Anyway, while doing that, keep watch on the other Factions and whichever one becomes the lowest standing, that's the next Faction to 'bounce' to and work. The trick is to maintain access to the current or next level of Event Agents for that Faction. Sometimes it can't be done and that's when the grinding of 16 regular missions for a Storyline offer is needed to get back to working 'The Plan'.

Eventually the Empire Faction standings will get close to being equal which is the initial goal. After that it's basically work one Factions Event Agent and then 'bounce' to another Factions Event Agent to slowly bring them all up together. The Epic Arcs are excellent for doing this, especially the level 1 Sisters Of Eve Epic Arc which allows you to choose one of the four main Empire Factions for completion.

I hope this info helps and feel free to ask questions again if needed. May you have good luck and much success working 'The Plan'.


DMC

EDIT :

When I did the Amarr Cosmos, I used the guide listed in 'The Plan' and first worked half of it which was all of the level 1 to level 3 Cosmos Agents. Then later after working Caldari Event Agents my Amarr standings were raised up enough to allow access to the last half of the Amarr Cosmos (the level 4 Agents).

There should be an easier way to repair faction standings a la security tags for your own security standings. all this grinding is insane for this day and age.

And its great that CCP does not agree with you (I hope they will not in future either). And if "this grinding is insane" for you, most probably you can do other things, that are not / do not seem insane for you. Well... ruining your standing was the greatest insanity to start off and if you ruined it, most probably it happened because you thought: "reading guides and gathering information is for sassies and it's insane waste of time - there should be easier way to do that" so you went straight for shooting and blowing things. You had other options and made your choice .

The main thing which makes this game really good is that you have free choice and the choices you make bring you consequences.

You're making a lot of assumptions that are making you look anything but good.

That's a good question. Unfortunately at this time there is no way to actually fix Concord Standings.

Sorry I couldn't help more.



DMC

Yeah, in that scenario Amarr stops giving derived standing gains to Caldari when Caldari get's to +7.00 Faction Standing whereas Caldari stops giving derived standing gains to Amarr when Amarr gets to +5.00 Faction Standing.

As for Gallente and Minmatar, they both stop giving Derived Standing gains when their ally gets to +8.00 Faction Standing.

Always a good idea to check the Derived Inter-Faction Standing Modifier graph first.




DMC

Finally! Thanks Oba.. I mean, Ezwal.

Oh my goodness, oh my goodness, oh my goodness.... so pleased this guide still exists....

Now that the theatrics are out of the way I need some help.

I'm returning to the game, probably in a smaller capacity than previously (famous last words) and ..... I might be bringing the Mrs with me.

She has expressed her discontent at pew pew and wants to do some trading. We'll be creating a new account for her to put 2 (possible 4) traders in the 2/4 main hubs and between us we'll use another of my existing characters to haul (I ain't do that!).

However I want to grind some standings for her and am unsure of how best to approach this.

Let me give you the lay of the land and hopefully someone will give me some decent (and hopefully accurate ) advice.

I have three accounts (not all live again yet). Each of these accounts is headed by a main combat character. Two are outstanding and one is a cheap Tengu pilot. But I think for the sake of standings they will be fine.

My no.1 Character (Barrak here) has various standings all over the place. I think he is key to achieving stuff, but this is based on my extensive knowledge of nothing. Oddly Barrak seems to have great Caldari Navy standing and poor state but strong Minnie and Gallente standings. I used to run a ton of Caldari Navy L4's years ago and I think I tried my hand at Faction warfare which might explain that.

Faction Standings:
Minmatar Republic 7.81 (up from 7.39 connections)
Gallente Federation 6.47 (up from 5.80 connections)
Sisters of EvE 4.96 (up from 4 connections)
Caldari State 1.56

NPC corporations:
Caldari Navy 8.93
Tribal Liberation Force 8.92
Republic Security Services 6.33

At this stage I am unable to tell if my other two combat characters have any standings anywhere. They are showing nothing in EvEMon and EvEboard.

I do have an existing trader that also has decent standings

Faction Standings:
Caldari State 6.08 (up from 5.54)
Ammatar Mandate 6.48 (up from 6)
Amarr Empire 5.60 (from 5)
Minmatar -2.5
Gallente -2.66

Is there a way to utilise either of these characters to the benefit of the others?

I've been away so long I can not recall how you can use two characters to benefit eachother for standings (if you can at all).

Any advice is most welcome.

Regards

Barrak